RE: $100,000 reward

Lakey, Jeremy (jeremy.lakey@wilcom.com)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:00:11 -0500

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so let's get distributed.net to brute force it... I think we should
donate the money to the Free Software Foundation or somebody like
that....

heh.... I've got a new client..... How big are the keys?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachary Roger Amsden [SMTP:amsden+@andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 8:34 AM
> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: $100,000 reward
>
> Anyone seen www.meganet.com? I tried to access meganet after seeing a
> Simpsons episode, and guess what there is one. They have some thing
> called
> VME (Virtual Matrix Encryption), and it is complete trash snake oil.
> They claim that they have an algorithm called DLA that will decrypt to
> garbage after it's expiration date. I'm sure you all know that is not
> possible unless they have a time machine and the ability to change
> fundamental properties of mathematics. They are offerring $100,000 to
> break their garbage encryption every month, but they ain't giving out
> code. And they give a new challenge every month (to avoid brute
> force,
> I would assume). The obscurity on this one looks pretty thick, but if
> they were a true secure system they wouldn't need it. I just thought
> it
> was time to blow the whistle. I hope this hasn't already been
> discussed
> to death.
>
> Zach Amsden
> amsden@andrew.cmu.edu

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